Trial of Michael Rafferty resumes Wednesday

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The trial of Michael Rafferty resumes Wednesday – it won’t be long before the jury announces its final verdict. Rafferty, 31, is charged with first-degree murder of an eight-year-old Ontarian girl, Victoria (Tori) Stafford. Tori was abducted in 2009 and her body had hard evidence of sexual assault.

Rafferty has pleaded not guilty, while his ex-girlfriend, Terri-Lynne McClintic, 21, agrees she ambushed the little girl and helped Rafferty in the abduction. McClintic pleaded guilty soon after she was arrested.

According to the doctors, a blunt force trauma, perhaps caused by multiple strikes with a hammer became the reason of her death. Allegedly, she died the same day she was kidnapped.

Det. Sgt. Jim Smyth told the London jury: “I could see a portion of a garbage bag underneath the rocks. I moved one rock aside. I touched the bag because I didn’t know if it was a piece of scrap.” Inside the bag was Tori’s remains, he told the court.

McClintic told the court that Rafferty sexually abused Tori and then killed her. However, McClintic gave a different statement when she was arrested and investigated by the police. Initially, McClintic took the blame of killing Tori, and now she says her initial statements were forged. According to McClintic, she had a deal with her ex-boyfriend that in case they were caught by the police, she would take all the blame.

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